Comprehensive Broken Shore Guide

This guide is about the Broken Shore, a level 110 zone added by Patch 7.2 to the Legion expansion. You can find brief information about all the new features of the zone, including new storylines, new faction, zone events, rares, building system and collectibles, such as the new-returning currency Fragmento del vacío, catch-up gear sets and vanity items.

In Patch 7.3, several quests for A tumba abierta are easier to complete, the ilvl 880 Relinquished tokens cannot be purchased, and there are several new items to buy with Nethershards. Contributing to a building on the Broken Shore no longer awards a Legionfall Recompense item, and the Artifact Power value of the Artifact Power token awarded has been reduced.

Finally, completion of the opening Broken Shore scenario is required on ONE character to unlock Argus.

The Broken Shore guide was originally maintained by Anshlun and is now maintained by Voxxel.

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Broken Shore Guide

Introduction

In Patch 7.2 players return to where the invasion began — the Broken Shore. Previously, the alternate Gul'dan has managed to re-open the portal within the Tomb of Sargeras and while the demon armies occupied the Broken Shore, Kil'jaeden makes every effort in the tomb to summon the Avatar of Sargeras back to this world. The Alliance, the Horde, and other factions of Azeroth was sent their combined forces to the isle to repel the increasing demon threat. It is there, on the Broken Shore, where many of the greatest heroes of Azeroth, such as King Varian Wrynn, Tirion Fordring or Vol'jin, fell in battle before the Burning Legion. But where the factions failed, Order Halls gathered together and regrouped to form a powerful new coalition, known as the Armires of Legionfall. The faction is dedicated to purge the Burning Legion from the Broken Shore and Tomb of Sargeras. In Patch 7.2, players take key role on the side of the Armires of Legionfall as they're about to launch their first attack against the Burning Legion.

More story

The Broken Shore, originally known as Thal'dranath, is where the Tomb of Sargeras - and thus the Burning Legion's gateway into Azeroth - is located. Gul'dan raised this island up from the bottom of the sea during the Second War, and it served as the demonic army's base of operations during the Third invasion of the Burning Legion. The isle was once a portion of the city of Suramar, and the location of the Temple of Elune. During the Great Sundering, it was sent to the bottom of the oceans along with the majority of ancient Kalimdor's landmass, as it was situated outside the boundaries of the shield raised by Grand Magistrix Elisande's highborne.

During the Second War, Gul'dan raised the entire island from the bottom of the sea as he sought the power locked away inside the Tomb, promised to him by Medivh. As he opened the Tomb, he was torn to shreds by the demons inside. He had been set up and punished by the Legion for his betrayal. During the Third War, Illidan Stormrage entered the Tomb and recovered the Eye of Sargeras. Pursued by Maiev Shadowsong and her Wardens, he attempted to collapse part of the Temple on them for attempting to stop him from destroying the Lich King, and for trying to imprison him once more.

In Legion, after the war in Draenor, alternate Gul'dan, guided by his master Kil'jaeden's voice, managed to re-open the portal within the Tomb of Sargeras, ushering in the largest invasion of Azeroth by the Burning Legion since the War of the Ancients. Their ultimate goal was to finally summon the dark titan himself, Sargeras, to Azeroth.

Broken Shore Campaign

Most of your accomplishments regarding the Patch 7.2 story are collected into this achievement. The content is not limited to only the Broken Shore zone, it also includes several external chapters, such as repelling invasions around the Broken Isles or completing Class Hall objectives. As a side chain, the Artifact upgrade questline also starts on the Broken shore. Wowhead has a separate guide for Empowering your Artifact already so I won't get it into details here. Completing A tumba abierta is one of the requirements for the Class Mount quests.At the release of Patch 7.2, players wasn't able to complete the Broken Shore campaign at once, the quest chain was staggered through three months, between Patch 7.2 and 7.2.5. The chain is now available without pause.

Landscape, Base of operations, Buildings

Broken Shore has 3 flight points, they aren't gated / locked behind story elements and are available for everyone. The zone itself is somewhat large, it has several key areas, the exploration achievement counts 8 of them. The Broken Shore houses 2 new instances: A new 5-man dungeon called Catedral de la Noche Eterna and the Tumba de Sargeras raid instance. The latter will be accessible on a later date but you can check Wowhead's Cathedral of Eternal Night Guide with all the details you want to know. You can reach both instances on foot by reaching Vengeance Point flight station on the north side of the island then follow the route up to the tomb. The raid's entrance is straight forward, you can't really miss it, while the dungeon entrance is located at the north side of the huge building, going to the left from the raid's entrance.

On the Broken Shore players can acquire powerful temporary zone-wide buffs from various environmental elements, like statues, plants and more. These clickable objects are all over the island.

Base of operations

Players can unlock Legionfall's base of operations, Deliverance Point through patch 7.2's initial scenario. It's located at the southern, grassy cliff of the zone where you can get a good look over the whole island. The developers made the base a kind of class-specific look. It's very interesting, each class can see their own order's people inhabiting the base (excluding quest NPCs of course). While Paladins see knights of the light, Hunters see eagles and archers, Warriors see vrykul shieldmaidens and Stormwing drakes hanging and patrolling around the area. This makes Deliverance point a lot more comfy and home-like for each of the classes.

Buildings

As you put the base into service the second thing to do is to construct buildings. There are 3 types of buildings that you can raise and each building has several unique abilities that players can use against the Legion. The construction is a cross-faction region-wide effort, a shared progression between all players. It's actually a simple contribution system: You offer as many Suministros del Ocaso de la Legión as you want to one of the buildings on the Mesa de construcción del Ocaso de la Legión at Deliverance Point. (See the Currency section how to obtain.)

Once, construction of a building is complete, it stays up for 3 days and during this time its buffs are active. Each building has one invisible, passive aura with 3 different bonuses and there's one random buff (out of 4 possible) rotating with each reconstruction. You can grab the random buff from Comandante Chambers next to the Mesa de construcción del Ocaso de la Legión at Deliverance Point.

New faction: Armies of Legionfall

After the overwhelming defeat on the Broken Shore / all Order Halls gathered and formed a new alliance to purge the Bruning Legion from the isle once and for all. Gaining high reputation to this new faction is required for various achievements and goods.

Gaining reputation

Multiplier: Mage Tower's Reputado buff. This increases all types of reputation gains with Armies of Legionfall.

The other vendor, Taumaturgo Vahsreen only sells the Relinquished gear set tokens for which turn into itemlevel 880 gear pieces for your active specialization. These can also be Warforged or Titanforged. This vendor has relocated to Argus in Patch 7.3 and now sells ilvl 910 tokens for Veiled Argunite.

Sentinax event

The Sentinax is a Legion command ship that patrols the Broken Shore, sending in backup troops to certain areas when necessary. From time to time, the ship changes its location and another area will be focused. The world map always shows the current location of Sentinax once you unlocked the Legionfall base.

While you're under the ship you get the La sombra del Sentinax buff. At the first time you start killing mobs with this buff under the ship, you'll get a quest starter item Baliza del Sentinax rota soon. After you complete this quest at Deliverance Point you'll have a chance to drop Sentinax Beacons from mobs under the ship. You can use these beacons to summon and/or empower portals while under the ship. These portals pump out loads of enemies for your looting pleasure, so the Sentinax event is a pretty nice way to farm Fragmento del vacíos and to gear up characters.

There are several types (qualities) of beacons. Green beacons summon common portals and you can loot them from any mobs in the area under the ship. Blue beacons are for empower (extend) existing portals. These beacons drop by the mobs that pour out of portals. Purple beacons are to summon powerful Lieutenants and can be looted by their respective Beacon portals. Portals are up for 1 minutes. If you summon one with green beacon then empower it by blue beacon it extends its duration to 2 minutes. Using a Lieutenant key summons empowered portals of that type. There's also an indicator above each portal to show if it's empowered already or not. (1 green dot means it's basic, 2 dots means it's empowered (extended).)

Every time players finish off a lieutenant, there's a 3 minutes break time when the Sentinax recalls its portals and begins to recharge.

Some achievements are added to the Sentinax event. Invocados para morir requires you to kill all Sentinax lieutenants. For Baliza viajera, you need to summon portals (using beacons) in each location listed in the achievement. Remember, the beacons can only be used while you're under the Sentinax buff. It is possible the developers may upgrade the Sentinax event in the future to make meaning of Ficha del Sentinax.

World Bosses, Rare elites, Portals & Treasures

World Bosses

The Broken Shore has 4 new World Bosses, they're available in rotation only when the Nether Disruptor building in the zone is fully constructed and active. Brutallus, Malificus, Si'vash and Apocron all drop itemlevel 900+ gear.

Rare Elites

Players can also find a number of named Rare Elite mobs on the isle who spawn regularly. If a Rare Elite is available it's visible on the Broken Shore world map by a huge skull icon. These Rare Elites are up only for a period of time and your character can loot their goods once a day per mob. Once you loot a mob you get saved to it and it won't show up on your map again until next day. These Rare Elites generally drop 100-250 Fragmento del vacío, some Recursos de la sede, Dauntless gear tokens and few Suministros del Ocaso de la Legión. There's one notable dreadlord, Lord Hel'nurath, who may be familiar from Dire Maul West to veteran Warlocks. Hel'nurath has the warlock class mount Riendas sombrías del corcel de cólera maldito listed in his in stock— though he's not willing to hand it over so easily.

Cofre Lenguavermis velado is another type of treasures you can find on the island. These are also scattered around the whole place but they become visible only when the Mage Tower building is active. Similar to Hidden Treasure Cache, these chests also contain the regular dose of Nethershards / Order Resources / Legionfall War Supplies, aside of minor artifact power items, Dauntless gear and junk.

You can find and loot more Hidden and Veiled treasure caches with server hopping but rumors say there's a secret cap of 100 chestloot per day per character. These treasures both have a tiny chance to drop Legendary gear and Moneda curiosa too.

The rares also have a tiny chance to drop legendary gear, like the caches.

Rare world quests still only give 75 rep, not 120.

I think the Cathedral of Eternal Night dungeon world quests from the Command Center still only give 250 rep, unless it has been hotfixed again recently.

Comentario de pattycat

one thing that should be noted, when the command center is built you get 1 of 3 of the buffs war effort, worthy champion, heavily augmented. you do not get a legendary follower item every time its up. pleas add this to the guide. its helpful info and seams to be true as of i logged in to get a legendary follower item bag on a toon that got them last time and it was a different buff.

Comentario de Drynii

Comentario de miniwidge

One tiny correction in a quick glance through - in describing buffs taken from the various plants around Broken Shore, you forgot a "-" in one of them. Looks like Moongrass. Right now, it says "+ 10% Haste / 10% health", being the only one that doesn't reduce your health by 10%.

Comentario de solitha

How long does it take for the Legion to destroy a building?

Comentario de wolfshae

Okay somy friend has only been pvp'ing and rarely did the zones, he's 110 and wants to go to the Broken shore again to do the rares and get the rep for armies of legion fall...

can anyone be of some help please

Comentario de wardonis

Where is quest 10,11 and 12? and what are they. I'm stuck. I can't get 'Defending Broken Isles' but I finished Altar of the Aegis (Dungeon quest)

Comentario de Aurmith

Did Blizz remove the rare boss' name on mouseover on the map on the Broken Shore with 7.3 or a hotfix? Now all I see is the skull - I no longer can tell which boss it is on mouseover. It doesn't seem to be addon interference.